October 2011
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September 2011
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Think about this for a minute.
Sometimes I just can’t “grin and bear it” and I have to comment on injustice in the world. Some guy in line at the grocery store just used his EBT card for a pack of gum and asked for, and received, $100 cash back. Meanwhile, I’m working three jobs, living frugally, and paying higher taxes every year. I should not be forced to finance these worthless parasites or be told...
July 2011
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Reading Notes
I just finished the chapter “This Will Kill That” in Notre-Dame de Paris. It is a fascinating telling of the history of the conveyances of knowledge and ideology. Hugo uses it as a tool to develop characterization and conflict to further his plot. He uses his knowledge of history and philosophy to create characters based on ideas. He is like a master teacher who recognizes an enormous...
June 2011
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“Sublime characters are stubborn. A man who is merely brave has only one method...”
– Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea
May 2011
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January 2011
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Imre "Imi" Lichtenfeld →
“In 1940, Lichtenfeld fled the Nazi occupation of his homeland, heading for Palestine on the Aliyah Bet vessel, Pencho, which shipwrecked on the Greek Dodecanese Islands. He arrived in Israel in 1942 after serving with great notoriety in the Czech Legion. Israel’s early leaders immediately recognized Lichtenfeld’s fighting prowess and ingenuity. He began to train Israel’s...
December 2010
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A reversal on carbs: Fat was once the devil. Now... →
This is an excellent overview on why a low-fat, high-carb diet causes heart disease, diabetes and obesity; and how a high-fat, low-carb diet cures these things.
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What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? →
A discussion of the science of the low-fat, high-carb vs. the high-fat, low-carb approach to human nutrition.
November 2010
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October 2010
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Teaches Kids to be Good...
I am a fan of Disney and I think Walt Disney was an American pioneer.
However, Disney ‘s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse—the TV show and the show at Disney World—attempt to teach young children an awful lesson. It is propaganda seeking to indoctrinate, in children, that group participation is an important primary of thought and action in human life. The theme of both is that accomplishment is...
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Jefferson’s immortal deletion →
“As is well known, Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Using ink on parchment, it was his custom to cross out his mistakes and write a new word nearby in a separate space. But scholars have long been puzzled by the one exception to that rule, found on an early draft of the Declaration. Instead of crossing out his mistake, Jefferson obliterated a word and over it...
August 2010
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Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me...
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Lost iPhone
While motorcycling, I lost my iPhone in the mountains seventy miles outside of Denver. With a great amount of help from my good friend Tony Black and the “Find My iPhone” application, I found it next to a primitive mountain road, seven hours after losing it.
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July 2010
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Earth Pigs
I hate earth pigs. An earth pig is one of those filthy teen age to 20-something children from a middle to upper class suburbanite family who make themselves look and smell like transients in protest of the “evils” of living in an industrialized society. It is the wealth generated by that same industrialized society that makes it possible for them to possess the leisure time to protest it. It is...
April 2010
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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong...”
– Voltaire
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“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.”
– Albert Giacometti (sculptor)
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“Make each day your masterpiece.”
– John Wooden
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“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every...”
– Dale Carnegie
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“To say man is bad because he is selfish is to say it’s bad because...”
– John Allison
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“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and,...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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“Take what you want and pay for it.”
– Spanish Proverb
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I don't like to publish things as mundane as what...
For brunch, I made an omelet with steak, goat cheese, green beans, orange bell pepper, a little mozzarella and canola oil. It was delicious. I love eating well.
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March 2010
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